The researchers believe that their prototype could be the basis of a portable, point-of-care testing platform that would enable rapid testing anywhere.
The WHO and FIND are supporting NGS-based testing in low-resource settings, while a resistance testing program at New York State's Wadsworth Center has matured.
In Genome Biology this week: analysis of tuberculosis samples from the 1600s, tool to detect variants affecting RNA-binding protein activity, and more.
The publisher of the Science family of journals will allow some authors to place peer-reviewed versions of their papers into publicly accessible repositories.
